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The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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THE<br />

CONSTRUCTION OF THE<br />

WONDERFUL CANON OF<br />

LOGARITHMS;<br />

And <strong>the</strong>ir relations to <strong>the</strong>ir own natural numbers<br />

;<br />

An Appendix as to <strong>the</strong> making <strong>of</strong> ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />

and better kind <strong>of</strong> Logarithms.<br />

TO WHICH ARE ADDED<br />

Propositions for <strong>the</strong> solution <strong>of</strong> Spherical Triangles by an<br />

easier method: with Notes on <strong>the</strong>m and on <strong>the</strong> above-mentioned<br />

Appendix by <strong>the</strong> learned Henry Briggs.<br />

By <strong>the</strong> Author and Inventor, John Napier, Baron <strong>of</strong><br />

Merchiston, &c., in Scotland.<br />

Printed by Andrew Hart,<br />

OF EDINBURGH;<br />

IN THE Year <strong>of</strong> our Lord, 1619.<br />

Translatedfrom Latin into English by William Rae Macdonald,

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